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ultradave -> RE: A nice tour of the Zumwalt (10/2/2014 3:15:55 PM)
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ORIGINAL: hellfish6
The Navy traditionalist in me cringes that a cruiser-sized ship commanded by a Captain, who normally would command cruisers, is still called a destroyer.
Good point. Another pet peeve (coming from someone involved in nuclear submarine design and testing for 30 years) is how the Navy has completely hosed the naming system for ships in general, but especially for submarines. The SEAWOLF class being the most glaring example. First one - sea creature again (we all rejoiced - back to tradition), then the CONNECTICUT - when at the time Tridents were being named for states, then the Jimmy Carter (also no CVN but the reasoning was that Carter was a big proponent of special ops and was a former navy nuke so we thought this one was good). Then they started naming attack subs after states instead of cities with the VIRGINIA class.
So what will they now start naming the OHIO Replacement class - I suppose they could re-use those state names one by one as they replace the OHIOs.
And I note that the 3rd DDG 1000 will be named the Lyndon Johnson. So he doesn't rate a CVN like the rest of the presidents. What gives with that? :-)
Everything changes with time I suppose, but the change isn't consistent.
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